The Road to Financial Freedom

Today's guest, Allison Baggerly , is a leading expert in money management with a focus on helping women break free from the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle and start building wealth. From the classroom to full-time CEO of Inspired Budget, Allison has been able to help thousands of women learn to budget, pay off debt, save, and invest for their future. To hear more about Allison Baggerly and her st...

Today's guest, Jim Lee , started his career as an inside sales representative for LoopNet/Costar. By being the top sales rep and winning a $50k sales incentive bonus, he used that savings to purchase his first 2 bed/1  bath condo and learn the importance of having multiple  streams of income. Now through real estate syndication,  he is invested in over 600 units in the past 2 years where  he...

Today's guest, Simon Popple , is a recognized expert on the gold sector and is regularly used by IG Index and Stockhead amongst others for his view on the sector. He's recently written a book - "Investing in a Recession - Time to Think About Gold", a great beginner's guide to investing in gold. To hear more about Simon Popple and his story, please make sure to tune into th...

Today's guest, David Pupo , is a real estate professional in Florida who has done hundreds of deals and is committed to bringing value to his clients by helping them navigate the complex process of buying or selling real estate. He's learned from mistakes, made changes as he goes, and has embraced his new role as a mentor in the real estate space, all in pursuit of a life that allows him...

Today's guest, Grant Norwood, knew lots of people with jobs in the oil and gas industry, but he wanted more. He wanted to run the show. He took an unconventional approach to building his career — a series of entry-level jobs in different departments of different oil companies, never more than six-months to a year, learning the business in the trenches from all sides. The years in grunt-level...

Today's guest, Ed Mathews, has been a real estate investor since 2010. He spent 25+ years working for Silicon Valley start-ups. He bought his first rental property in 2010 and built his investing business, Clark St Properties, part-time. In 2018, Ed left the corporate rat race and now invests in flips and rental properties in Connecticut, Vermont, and Rhode Island. Through the years he's...

Today's guest, Bronson Hill , is a general partner in 2,000 multifamily units worth over $200M. Bronson co-leads a large in person multifamily meetup in Pasadena, CA called FIBI Pasadena Multifamily. He understands the investor mindset, having spoken individually over the phone with over 1300 investors and having raised over $30M for real estate and his ATM Machine Fund deals. To hear more ab...

Today's guest, Denise Piazza, loves numbers as much as her husband, which means they have doomed their kids to having no chance of being cool. Numbers, however, are critical to the way Denise approaches real estate investing. She has written an article on 50 questions she wishes she had asked before she started investing and has since come up with what she considers to be the 3 pillars of rea...

Today's guest, Bob Lachance, is the founder and CEO of premiere Virtual Assistant staffing company REVA Global that helps real estate professionals get their time back and close more deals. Everything changed for Bob Lachance when he had an “a-ha” moment. A veteran of over 1,500 real estate investments, he had been helping real estate coaching programs build out their back end, and he was fac...

Today's guest, Josh Ziegelbaum, comes from the Legacy Group, where he is responsible for investor communications, onboarding, individual and commercial clients, as well as overall support of company initiatives. When Legacy Group decided to make a modest entry into the Colombian Coffee business in 2017, they quickly discovered they were thinking too small. Fast forward to today. The resulting...

Today's guest, Patrick Grimes , is a design engineer and CEO and Founder of Invest on Main Street, LLC. Like so many real estate investors, Patrick Grimes learned a lot of lessons the hard way in 2008 and 2009. Having begun investing in single-family homes in 2006, he found himself at the top of a market that (supposedly) had no top. Since all single-family loans are full-recourse loans, the...

Today's guest, Mike Hardy , co-founder and principal of the CYRUS OZ Fund, found himself shocked when he first began to learn about Opportunity Zones, thinking they were too good to be true. Adopted in 2017 to help drive investment to areas in decline, this little-known temporary initiative allowed states to designate regions as “opportunity zones,” and private investors would enjoy tax benef...

Today's guest, Brian Grimes , founder of 24/7 Cash Flow University, started his career as a financial advisor before he began attacking real estate investing with the same vigor he used to attack basketball. Grimes didn't play for the NBA - but at 6'4" was nationally ranked by the age of 14, and when he was a freshman in high school, he flew to Akron to play a high school junio...

Today's guest, Tanya Brown , first dabbled in real estate as a landlord, but made the rookie mistake of renting her property to her family members. It wasn't until she came across note investing that she found her niche -- and that niche is being the bank, as opposed to being the buyer or seller.  She found it was more rewarding to keep the note rather than hope to get the property back....

Today's guest, Axel Meierhofer , founder of idealwealthgrower.com and host of the Ideal Wealth Grower Podcast , began coaching real estate investors for an unusual reason — he has a passion for making sure people in his care don’t die. Not that he has a particularly deadly approach to real estate investing. It’s just that as a mentor and a leader, he cut his teeth as a German Air Force pilot,...

Today’s guest was obsessed during his 20s with obtaining financial freedom. His goal was to be able to retire as early as possible because he wanted to eliminate the need for money. Once he hit his goal, it turns out that retirement just wasn’t for him. In his 30s, he started to think about different roles and projects that he wanted to accomplish. He started what is called the Cash Flow Breakfast...

Today’s guest, Erik Smolinski, learned about investing at a young age. He was taught by a man he lovingly, refers to as his “stepdad,” and will always be grateful for his teachings. His motivation to learn was his mother, who raised him and his brother by herself. He wanted to make sure that he had a secure financial life ahead of him and also to be able to take care of his mother. Over the past 1...

Today’s guest started his career as a property fund manager, and when the 2008 crash happened, he needed to rethink his future endeavors. He started to learn more about commodities and how they can be, “the future,” since, for example, gold, cannot be printed. Gold has been a known and used currency since the beginning of time and its usually the basis of most currency systems today. To understand...

Kevin Amolsch is a successful real estate investor and private money lender. After college, he spent two years working with Wall Street as a Mortgage Bond Analyst before leaving to work in real estate financing for investors full time. He and his companies have closed on over 2,200 transactions as a buyer, seller, or private money lender. He currently manages multiple mortgage funds with more than...

As a child, today’s guest grew up learning about real estate investing, experiencing it, first hand. His parents were avid investors, rental owners, and developers of land and real estate. He fell in love with being an entrepreneur at a young age but did not know that he would end up in real estate for his future career. During his college internship at a commercial real estate brokerage firm, he...

Today’s guest goes by many titles, CPA, U.S. Tax Court Practitioner (USTCP), member of the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council (IRSAC) CEO, Entrepreneur, Pilot, Husband, and Dad. Whew, that was mouth full! He may go by many titles, but he is also funny to boot! Charles and TRTFF conduct a fabulous chat about his experiences throughout the years, his adventures and life lessons. Make sure to...

Listening to a Podcast is always a great way to learn about different areas of interest. Today’s guest Mike Cavaggioni is an avid podcaster, starting his career in the Navy and from there, was able to move to his paradise of Hawaii. Throughout his career as a licensed Real Estate investor he has focused on learning and helping others succeed in their financial freedom journeys along with him throu...

It’s a well-known fact that schools, for the most part, do not teach students about investing into the stock market. There are children and adults alike that do not completely understand how the stock market works and the benefits of a well-rounded portfolio. This week’s guest is doing his best to educate people of all ages on this subject matter. He has created an animated series that follows a c...

Being a business owner is hard, it’s even harder figuring out all the logistics that make a business grow. Money comes in and money goes out, but if you are not specialized in accounting can you fully understand where the money goes? Today’s guest was in this exact situation and was stuck in a rut until he had a great idea to use his specific talents as a real estate investor to be able to look at...

In the world of real estate investing, it is very common to see investors changing their trajectory of careers, from what they thought they wanted to do, to what they actually do for a living. Most children do not dream of being a real estate investor, especially if they do not have prior exposure to it, from family members or their surrounding environment. This is the exact story of Today’s guest...